Dress guard



A. H. DE VOE.

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ALBERT H. DE VOE, OF W'ESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE SING-ER MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, A CORIORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patanted July 25, 1922,

Original application filed April 1, 1918, Serial No. 225,935 Divided and this application filed October 2 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. DE Von, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVestiield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress Guards, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompany ing drawings.

This invention relates to a dress-guard for power-transmitters, such as that shown in my copending application Serial No. 225,935,

filed April 1, 1918, and of which this application is a division.

The objects of the invention are to provide a dress-guard for the pulley-wheels and other moving parts of the transmitter which will be simple, readily opened or closed, which does not require the use of tools for the opening or closing operations, and in which the guard may be properly located in closed position.

The invention in a preferred form comprises a h nger adjustably mounted on a sup porting bracket, power-transmitting means mounted in the hanger, a dress-guard pivotally mounted on the hanger and having means for holding it in closed position, and

adjusting means for determining said closed position.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a power-transmitter, with the dress-guard broken away and showing the hinged connection between the hanger and guard. Fig. 2 is a right side elevation. Figs. 3 and 1 are details showing the adjustable hinged mounting of the guard.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates a table-top or other support to which is secured a bracket 2. Adjustably mounted in the bracket is a hanger or frame 3, the hanger being adjusted in the bracket by means of a lever 4 in the manner fully disclosed in my copending application above mentioned. Mounted in an arm 5 of the hanger by suitable means as disclosed in said copending ap plication is a driving pulley 7 and a driven pulley 11, and sustained by the hanger 3 ad j acent the driven pulley is a brake disk 14:. The driving and driven pulleys and the brake disk are provided with suitable cooperating friction surfaces, all as clearly disclosed in the said copending application.

A dress-guard 30 has formed thereon two Serial No. 260,251.

apertured hinge lugs 31, and the arm 5 of the hanger has an apertured hinge lug32 disposed between said first two lugs. A hinge pin 33 passes through all three lugs and is secured in proper position on the lug 32 by a setscrew 34. The hinge pin has an angularly disposed portion 35 at its lower end, and said portion is adapted to engage a recess 36 (Fig. 1) extending radially outward onthe lower surface of the bottom hinge lug 31. 7

It will be seen that as the guard is moved to closed position the surface of the bottom hinge lug moves over the angular portion 35 of the hinge pin, and as the recess 36 comes into registration with the portion 35 the guard drops slightly by gravity, the recess fitting over the portion 35 and holding the guard in closed position. By loosening the set-screw 34; the hinge pin may be raised or lowered to properly position the guard in a vertical direction, and by rotating the hinge pin the point at which the recess 36 engages the angular portion 35 is varied, thereby changing the point at which the horizontal swinging movement of the guard is halted. Upon properly locating the guard the setscrew 3 1 is tightened to secure the hinge-pin and thereafter the guard is merely swung to and from closed position, as desired.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention, what I claim herein is- 1. In a power-transmitting device, a bracket, a hanger adjustably suspended from said bracket, driving and driven pulleys supported by said hanger, and a dress-guard mounted in said hanger to swing outwardly about a vertical axis to afford access to said pulleys.

2. In combination, a hanger, pulleywheels journaled therein, a dress-guard hinged to the hanger, and means carried by the hinge for holding the guard in closed posit-ion.

3. In combination, a hanger, pulleywheels journaled therein, a dress-guard, coacting hinge lugs carried by'said hanger and guard, a hinge-pin passing through said lugs, and cooperating means on said pin and one of said lugs for holding said guard closed.

4c. In combination, a hanger, pulleywheels journaled therein, a dress-guard hinge-lugs on said guard, a hinge-pin seguard in closed position.

cured to said hanger and passing through said lugs, said pin having a bent portion at one end, and a recess on one of said lugs adapted to be engaged by said bent portion to hold said guard closed. 1

5. In combination, a hanger, pulleywheels journaled therein, a dress-guard, interengaging elements carried by said hanger and guard for pivotally mounting said guard, and interengaging means also carried by said hanger and guard for holding said 6. In combination, a hanger, pulleywheels movably journaled therein, a hingelug on said hanger, a hinge-pin adjust-ably secured t-ierein, a dress-guard having hinge lugs adapted to fit over said hinge-pin, and means carried by said pin and guard forsecurin the guard in closed position.

7. .in combination, a hanger, pulley- Wheels journaled therein, a dress-guard, means pivotally connecting said hanger and guard, said means including means for adjustably fixing the closed position ofsaid guard. Y

8. In combination, a hanger, pulley- Wheels journaled therein, a dress-guard; hinge-lugs and an adjustable hinge-pin pivotally connecting said hanger and guard,

and means for securing said hinge-pin in adjusted position. I j v 9. In] combination, a hanger, pulleywheels journaled therein, a dressguard, 'means for pivotally connecting said hanger and guard including a rotatalfily adjustable hinge-pin, means for securing Said-pin in adjusted position, and means carried by said pinfor holding said guard inclosed'posisaid'pin in adjusted position, and means carriedbysaid pin fol-holding said guard in closed position.

Intestnnony whereof I have signedmy name to this specification.

ALBERT H. DE VOE. 

